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Junior Cycle History: The Reformation

How often The Reformation comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

The Reformation, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on The Reformation.

(a)Which preacher's sale of indulgences angered Martin Luther in 1517?
  1. John Calvin
  2. Johann Tetzel
  3. Ignatius Loyola
(b)In the time of Luther, what was an indulgence?
  1. A book of Catholic prayers
  2. A tax paid to the king for land
  3. A pardon to cut time in Purgatory
(c)The Catholic Church's own reform and response to Protestantism is called the…
  1. Counter-Reformation
  2. Enlightenment
  3. Renaissance
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(a) Johann Tetzel

(b) A pardon to cut time in Purgatory

(c) Counter-Reformation

Your turn: Common Level questions on The Reformation.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q2
2024Not asked
2023Q2
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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